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Fun Quotes from Period G:


Br: "It sounds kind of substantial..."
Mike: "That's what it's supposed to sound like." (Referring to his in-class essay introduction)

Katie: "Well, he's making him sound immortal..."
Br: "Gods tend to be."

"God doesn't get drunk. God can handle ample amounts of alcohol." ~ anonymous for obvious reasons.

Me: "I wonder about soap!"
Megan: "Me too. All the time..."

"Catch the fly with your chopsticks grasshoppa..."
"Catch the fly with your grasssticks chophoppa..."

Megan: "I'm going to major in rigidiambicpentameterianism!"

Me: "My memory is broken"

"Let's be a polite fanatic"

"cyclops, normal clops, triclops"

Me: "Go big or go home"
Anusia: "I think i'll go home"

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Lynn: "They're like, intentionally being weird." (referring to a poet's obscurity)

Br: "Skinks... particularly at sunrise"
Br: "The mail arrived! My skinks are here!"

Caitlin: "That's his speech... he spoke it, right?

Mike(or now Mark): "You read, didn't you?"

Kent: "Rocks aren't alive"
Mark: "Yes they are. If you look at them long enough."

Br: "This is how learning is different from alcohol.

Mark: "HERESY!"

Anusia: "Catch more flies with honey."

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Mark: "yes"
Br: "YES!!!"

Megan: "I don't think you're a light in the world..."
Me: "You're a shade."

Br: "what you know will be shaken, possibly even shattered"
Lauren: "What if you don't want it to?"

Anusia: "I don't want to be dumbed down"
Katie: "I want to be smart up!"

Br: "Ya read books, they complicate things."

"We call them skorts..."
"Well, we call them culottes!"

Megan: "I fight global warming. My thoughts are foxes, not lightbulbs."


The Elegy and Pastoral

The Bear
What is a pastoral?
The thought-fox
Midsummer, Tobago
From the Porch
What makes these poems?
The Ode
Ave Maria
City Poems
The final tally
Favorite poem?
your own pastoral/elegy

Invisible Cities

Structure
The cities
Women's names
Two
What is this?
Purpose?
Chloe
Marco, and the Khan
What would your city be?
The people
A whole novel like this
3rd video
Existence
Form
Dark City
Blindness
Tuning
Souls
City planning
Dr. Schreber
Ceasing to see
creator of the world
happy ending for dark city?

Long Day's Journey into Night

The Movie
The Blame Game
Who causes addiction?
Unlearn a lesson
The card game
The life of tyrone
Religious thoughts
Main Themes
Eugene=Edmund
What makes a good ending?
Back to Names
Stage directions
Walking on Eggshells
The title

The Things They Carried

Truth and False
The Man I Killed
Mary Anne Belle
American Casualties
Lives of the Dead
Fight or Run?

The Crying of Lot 49

the american dream
dry (continued)
Masterpiece or Not?
Oedipa Oedipus
Alice in Wonderland
What did you think?

The Cherry Orchard

Twice
What an ending
Firs
Passion
Memory
Happy ending?
A String Breaking?
Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard
The Format of the Movie
Reviewing the Film
Madame Renevsky

As I Lay Dying

Shouldn't Jewel Have a Say?
Was Addie a Good Mother?
Vantage Point
Vardaman’s style
The Wedding Dress
Flood and Fire
Catchphrases
Mrs. Bundren
Prosy Poetry
Addie Speaks
Reaction to Addie's Death
The Narrative Style
Title Question



Blank Verse, Heroic Couplet

Better Without Rhyme?
Closest to Human Speech?

Couplet to Triplet
Blank Verse
The Song of the Mad Prince
Random Question
Possible flaws
What Is the Tyger?
Sad, Bittersweet, or Cute?
Easter Wings
Stanzas Purpose
Too Many Hyphens
Saying Yes
Not Waving but Drowning
Warming her pearls

She Stoops To Conquer

Miss Hardcastle and Marlow
Deception as a theme
Significance of title
Similarity to Midsummer Night's Dream
A Good Play?


Jacob's Room

Chapter 7 Intro
Woolfe's Style
Chapter 14
is this a novel?
Jacob's rooms.
Woolf's perception of beauty



The Ballad

The Ballad is a great form
The Ballads Today
What Makes a Ballad Great?


Essays

Define It
Communication with Others
Difficulty v. obscurity
I Guess It Is Poetry
Is Pope Arrogant?

What is Nature!?
Really An Essay?